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Fuel affordability
Compare a tank of fuel with OECD gross annual wages, using explicit working-hour assumptions and dated local prices.
How much gross earning time does a 60 L tank represent? This uses OECD mean annual wages for full-time-equivalent employees, in current national currency. A standardized 2,080-hour working year (40 × 52) converts annual wages to illustrative hourly earnings. It is not actual hours worked, median pay or take-home pay.
Fuel prices are latest observations as of 2026-09-30; wages refer to the selected year. Rankings exclude prices over 14 days old, wage years more than three years behind the release, and mismatched currencies. Different wage and fuel periods remain a limitation.
| Country | Hours of gross earnings | Fuel price and date | Annual wage |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1.69 hours | 1.180 USD/L · 2026-09-28 | 86977 USD (2025) |
| Luxembourg | 2.68 hours | 1.849 EUR/L · 2026-09-21 | 86017 EUR (2025) |
| Canada | 2.75 hours | 1.884 CAD/L · 2026-09-29 | 85588 CAD (2025) |
| Australia | 2.81 hours | 2.375 AUD/L · 2026-09-27 | 105478 AUD (2025) |
| Ireland | 3.83 hours | 1.945 EUR/L · 2026-09-21 | 63379 EUR (2025) |
| Belgium | 4.02 hours | 1.988 EUR/L · 2026-09-21 | 61747 EUR (2025) |
| Sweden | 4.07 hours | 17.806 SEK/L · 2026-09-21 | 546171 SEK (2025) |
| Austria | 4.09 hours | 1.925 EUR/L · 2026-09-21 | 58754 EUR (2025) |
| Denmark | 4.52 hours | 19.570 DKK/L · 2026-09-21 | 540516 DKK (2025) |
| United Kingdom | 4.65 hours | 1.735 GBP/L · 2026-09-28 | 46511 GBP (2025) |
| Netherlands | 4.97 hours | 2.449 EUR/L · 2026-09-21 | 61492 EUR (2025) |
| Germany | 5.34 hours | 2.348 EUR/L · 2026-09-21 | 54840 EUR (2025) |
| Slovenia | 5.67 hours | 1.706 EUR/L · 2026-09-21 | 37569 EUR (2025) |
| Finland | 5.83 hours | 2.364 EUR/L · 2026-09-21 | 50569 EUR (2025) |
| France | 6.25 hours | 2.219 EUR/L · 2026-09-21 | 44304 EUR (2025) |
| Spain | 6.85 hours | 1.928 EUR/L · 2026-09-21 | 35121 EUR (2025) |
| Lithuania | 7.62 hours | 1.950 EUR/L · 2026-09-21 | 31939 EUR (2025) |
| Italy | 7.69 hours | 2.141 EUR/L · 2026-09-21 | 34733 EUR (2025) |
| Estonia | 8.68 hours | 1.917 EUR/L · 2026-09-21 | 27554 EUR (2025) |
| Czechia | 8.96 hours | 45.878 CZK/L · 2026-09-21 | 639181 CZK (2025) |
| Poland | 9.76 hours | 7.922 PLN/L · 2026-09-21 | 101248 PLN (2025) |
| Hungary | 9.90 hours | 634.879 HUF/L · 2026-09-21 | 8006717 HUF (2025) |
| Latvia | 10.10 hours | 1.997 EUR/L · 2026-09-21 | 24685 EUR (2025) |
| Portugal | 10.18 hours | 2.107 EUR/L · 2026-09-21 | 25826 EUR (2025) |
| Slovakia | 10.80 hours | 1.853 EUR/L · 2026-09-21 | 21403 EUR (2025) |
| Greece | 14.58 hours | 2.197 EUR/L · 2026-09-21 | 18801 EUR (2025) |
| Bulgaria | No matching wage and currency | 1.663 EUR/L · 2026-09-21 | Unavailable |
| Cyprus | No matching wage and currency | 1.677 EUR/L · 2026-09-21 | Unavailable |
| Croatia | No matching wage and currency | 1.796 EUR/L · 2026-09-21 | Unavailable |
| Malta | No matching wage and currency | 1.340 EUR/L · 2026-09-21 | Unavailable |
| Romania | No matching wage and currency | 9.955 RON/L · 2026-09-21 | Unavailable |
OECD definition and source · Retrieved 2026-09-30 07:43:21 UTC · Download wage observations. OECD status codes are preserved in the download. Missing countries are not assigned a neighbour’s wage.